The kiss emoji is Face blowing a kiss, U+1F618. It heads 52 kisses: three more kissing faces and a cat, two people kissing in five skin tones, the lipstick mark, 13 text kisses and 13 combos such as Frog prince.
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Pick a kiss by the word for it
Search reads CLDR, Unicode's list of search words for each emoji. It files 21 emoji under a kissing word such as smooch or mwah, all of them here. Muah finds the blown kiss, Growing heart and the text kiss mwah; flirt the four kissing faces and Biting lip. Choose a skin tone under More options and all four kissing couples take it, as does the cook in Chef's kiss.
Kisses that come apart in the post
Kiss, the one with two people, is a single code point, U+1F48F, so nothing can come apart. The three named pairs are eight code points each. Biting lip dates from Emoji 14.0 and is an empty box on older devices. :-*, :* and :x are plain ASCII and go wherever text goes.
Tips
The lips in a text kiss are borrowed: digit 3, superscript Β³, Greek Ξ΅ or Cyrillic Π·. Search three, epsilon or ze.
For a goodnight, send Kissing face with smiling eyes, the only kissing face for which CLDR lists night. The Goodnight kiss combo adds ZZZ.
Of the four kissing faces, CLDR lists heart only for Face blowing a kiss. If a heart says more than you mean, take Kissing face.
Questions and answers
Which one is the kiss emoji?
By name there are three: Face blowing a kiss, which leads this page, Kiss mark, and Kiss, which shows two people. Formally the face is Face throwing a kiss; blowing is CLDR's short name. Three more faces are named kissing, as is one cat.
Why did my kiss arrive as two people, a heart and a lipstick mark?
A named pair such as Kiss: woman, man is four emoji: a person, Red heart, Kiss mark and a second person, held by zero width joiners. Unicode's emoji report, UTS #51, says a system with no single picture shows them separately. Kiss, U+1F48F, cannot split.
In xoxo, is the x the kiss or the hug?
The kiss. In the oldest example both letters were kisses: Wikipedia reports that the Oxford English Dictionary's earliest is Florence Montgomery's 1878 book Seaforth, where a letter ends with a row of kisses, written as crosses or as o's. It calls the origin stories speculation.
πFace blowing a kissU+1F618. The kiss emoji. Unicode names the character Face throwing a kiss; CLDR softened it to blowing, and lists muah and smooch. The only one of the four kissing faces for which CLDR lists heart. Emoji 0.6.
π½Kissing catU+1F63D. Unicode names it Kissing cat face with closed eyes. CLDR gives it no love, no xoxo: just kiss, kissing and cat. Emoji 0.6.
πKissing faceU+1F617. Open eyes, pursed lips, no heart. CLDR lists smooch and flirt. It arrived in Unicode 6.1, one version after Face blowing a kiss. Emoji 1.0.
πKissing face with closed eyesU+1F61A. Eyes shut. CLDR lists blush for it, and kisses and kissing, though not the bare word kiss. Emoji 0.6.
πKissing face with smiling eyesU+1F619. The only kissing face for which CLDR lists night, so it is the goodnight one. Emoji 1.0.
Show all 52 kisses (47 more)
Two people kissing 4
πKissU+1F48F. Two people, and a single code point: U+1F48F. It survives old devices better than the three below. Skin tones came in Emoji 13.1. Emoji 0.6.
π¨ββ€οΈβπβπ¨Kiss: man, manU+1F468 U+200D U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468. Man, Red heart, Kiss mark, Man, with a zero width joiner between each. The skin tone you pick goes on both people. Emoji 2.0.
π«¦Biting lipU+1FAE6. CLDR lists kiss and flirt, and also nervous and worried. From Emoji 14.0, so older devices show an empty box. Emoji 14.0.
πKiss markU+1F48B. The lipstick print. CLDR lists lips and mark. It is also the middle of every joined kiss above. Emoji 0.6.
πMouthU+1F444. Just the lips. CLDR lists kiss, kissing and lipstick for it. Emoji 0.6.
Filed under kisses, none in the name 9
πCouple with heartU+1F491. Two people and a heart, nobody kissing. CLDR lists kiss for it anyway. One code point, and it takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
π¨ββ€οΈβπ¨Couple with heart: man, manU+1F468 U+200D U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F468. Man, Red heart, Man. CLDR lists kiss and together for it. Emoji 2.0.
πGrowing heartU+1F497. CLDR lists kisses, muah and nervous for it. Emoji 0.6.
πHeart with ribbonU+1F49D. A heart wrapped as a gift. CLDR lists kisses, xoxo and valentine. Emoji 0.6.
πSmiling face with heart-eyesU+1F60D. No kiss in the picture, but CLDR lists kisses and xoxo for it. Emoji 0.6.
πSparkling heartU+1F496. Listed under kisses, and under both morning and night. A heart for the first message of the day or the last. Emoji 0.6.
πTwo heartsU+1F495. One of four hearts for which CLDR lists kisses. This one also gets anniversary and dating. Emoji 0.6.
Things to send with one 5
πLipstickU+1F484. What makes the mark. CLDR lists cosmetics, makeup and date, and no kiss. Emoji 0.6.
πLove letterU+1F48C. An envelope with a heart on it. For a kiss sent by post. Emoji 0.6.
π«People huggingU+1FAC2. The hug half of hugs and kisses. From Emoji 13.0. Emoji 13.0.
β€οΈRed heartU+2764 U+FE0F. The heart inside every joined kiss. It has a plain text form as well. Emoji 0.6.
πΉRoseU+1F339. CLDR lists love and valentine. Unicode has no mistletoe, so this is the plant you get. Emoji 0.6.
Text kisses 13
( Λ Β³Λ)β₯Eyes shut, a heart leaving the lips
(^Π·^)-βCyrillic ze for lips, a star for the smack
(´Ρ` )Epsilon lips between two accents
(ΰΉΛΞ΅ΛΰΉ)Greek epsilon lips, Thai digit one cheeks
(γ£ΛΠ·(Λβ£Λ )Two faces: a kiss landing on a cheek
(γ₯οΏ£ Β³οΏ£)γ₯Arms out, superscript three for lips
:*The same kiss with the nose left off
:-*Sideways face: the asterisk is the pucker
(*^3^)/~βBlowing a kiss: a digit three and a star
(β―3β°)Arc brows and a plain digit three
mwahThe sound, spelled out
:xSideways face: the x is the kiss
xoxoFour letters at the foot of a message
Kiss combos 13
ππ«΄Blown and caughtFace blowing a kiss, then palm up hand. CLDR lists catch for Palm up hand. The hand is from Emoji 14.0 and follows your skin tone.
π§βπ³πChef's kissCook, then kiss mark. Taken literally. CLDR lists chef for Cook, who follows the skin tone you pick.
πΈππFrog princeFrog, then kiss mark, then crown. Before, the kiss, and after.
ππ€Goodnight kissKissing face with smiling eyes, then ZZZ. CLDR lists night for the face and goodnight for the letters.
π«πHugs and kissesPeople hugging, then face blowing a kiss. xoxo in two emoji.
π½πΎKiss from the catKissing cat, then paw prints. For a message signed by the pet.
ππKiss goodbyeFace blowing a kiss, then waving hand. CLDR lists bye for the hand, which follows the skin tone you pick.
ππKiss, then the markFace blowing a kiss, then kiss mark. Sent and landed.
ππLipstick, then the printLipstick, then kiss mark. Cause and effect.
ππMidnight kissTwelve oβclock, then kiss mark. Twelve o'clock, then the mark. For New Year.
ππSealed with a kissLove letter, then kiss mark. The envelope, then the print on the flap.
πππTriple kissFace blowing a kiss 3 times. For a sign-off that means it.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 26 emoji, their names, code points, skin tones and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. The search words quoted in the notes are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml, main branch). The groups Kissing faces, Two people kissing, Lips and marks and Filed under kisses are every emoji to which that file gives one of the search words kiss, kisses, kissing, smooch, smooches, mwah or muah: 21 in all, skin tone forms not counted. The file holds 104 kisses between two people, 100 of them with skin tones; the skin tone row here reaches the 20 in which both people share a tone, and leaves out the mixed pairs. Formal character names (Face throwing a kiss, Kissing cat face with closed eyes) are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and the Unicode version in which a character arrived is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt). Text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). The five extras, the 13 text kisses and the 13 combos are this site's own choice, and the combo names are our own. Every character in a text kiss was checked against UnicodeData.txt, and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. Wikipedia's List of emoticons records :-*, :* and :x as kisses, (*^3^)/~β as blowing a kiss, (ΰΉΛΞ΅ΛΰΉ) as a kiss and (γ₯οΏ£ Β³οΏ£)γ₯ as hugging, reaching and kissing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons). All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work (the selection, the combo names and the wording are ours; emoji names, sequences and search words come from Unicode's data files and CLDR, under the Unicode License v3; facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in our own words and credited in source)